RCS and Computer Science Remote Access Servers

Overview

There are two groups of Remote Access Servers.  Both of them are unix-based servers which can be connected to via SecureCRT, Cygwin, ssh, PuTTY, WinSCP, FileZilla, etc.

Details

The first group of servers has been available to all students, staff and faculty to use since the fall semester of 2017.  You can use your RCS userid and password for authentication to this first set of servers.  That is the same userid and password that would be used for email at RPI.  Among other things, these servers had a few interesting programming languages available on them.  The servers have been running Redhat Enterprise Release 7.

Note that this first set of servers will be permanently retired on August 21, 2024.
Reference this announcement: 
https://dotcio.rpi.edu/announcements/dotcio-announces-retirement-rcsrpiedu-august-21-2024

There are two hostname rotaries that can be used to connect you to any one of the available RCS remote access servers:

• rcs.rpi.edu

and

• rcs-linux.rpi.edu

Sometimes you may wish to connect to some specific RCS server.  The individual RCS remote access server hostnames are:

• rcs-linux1.rpi.edu
• rcs-linux2.rpi.edu
• rcs-linux3.rpi.edu

Note that if anyone connecting to these machines from off-campus will first have to authenticate to one of the campus VPN's (most people will use vpn.net.rpi.edu).

The second group of servers is run by Rensselaer's Computer Science department. If you have an account with the CS department, then you can use their remote machines at:

• linux.cs.rpi.edu
• svn3.cs.rpi.edu
• foswiki.cs.rpi.edu

For the most up-to-date information about these servers, please refer to the Computer Science department's Lab Manual page.

Last Reviewed:   25-June-2024